News
2024
Starting from August 2024, Carlo Antonini is visiting professor at York University in Toronto, Canada, hosted by a long-term mentor, Alidad Amirfazli, during his sabbatical. This period also represents a unique opportunity to meet and start collaboration with several colleagues at University of Toronto, UQAC and other leading canadian universities.
August 2024
Low ice adhesion on soft surfaces: Elasticity or lubrication effects?
August 2024
Wetting characterisation on complex surfaces by an automatic open-source tool: DropenVide
July 2024
Why the adhesion strength is not enough to assess ice adhesion on surfaces
July 2024
Chitosan electrolyte hydrogel with low ice adhesion properties
June 2024
Controlled Wrinkle Patterning on Thin Films to ImproveHydrophobicity
June 2024
Collaborative work gave place to a publication in Carbohydrate Polymers journal
April 2024.
Beyond solids and liquids: The science of slime
March 2024
A recent interlaboratory study about the reliability of relevant parameters in Additive Manufacturing is available here
March 2024
Veronica Radice and Alice Colombo defended their thesis about anti-icing materials
February 2024
New paper about ice control and mitigation surface obtained by iCVD
February 2024
Outcomes from water drop impact on hydrophobic meshes
January 2024
Chitosan water-soluble derivatives for application to capillary electrophoresis
January 2024
Catalina's episode in the #SURFICEcomicseries is released!
2023
September 2023
Congratulations to Luca and the SURFICE team for their most recent contribution to the icing community!
October 2023
Congratulations to the new graduated students: Linda e Massimilano!
October 2023
Congratulations to Irene for winning the Falling Walls Italy 2023 and being selected for the International edition in Berlin
June 2023
Raziyeh present her work about Understanding water drop impact on porous meshes for effective fog harvesting in the DIPSI workshop 2023 in Bergamo, Italy
September 2023
Catalina present her work about the effect of lubrication on ice detachment regimes for PDS in the JICI VI helded in Granada, Spain
September 2023
Raziyeh present "Drop impact on hydrophobic and superhydrophobic meshes" in the ILASS Group Meeting 2023, in Naples, Italy
May 23.
In Catania, Italy, during the AIMAT 2023, Carlo presented the work "Characterization and design of pure photopolymers and suspensions for digital light processing (DLP)". Fruit of the work with Rajat and Raziyeh
June 2023
Congratulations to Pietro Ruggeri and to Michela Tamandi for their Msc and Bsc defense respectively
July 2023
SEFI Lab members visited the RSE (Ricerca Sistema Energetico) at Piacenza. One of the highlights of the visit was the snow chamber used to test the anti icing properties of electrical wirings
June/23
At the SAE intertional event, helded in Vienna, Austria, Carlo Antonini presented the SURFICE project while Luca Stendardo presented his work on "Dynamic and Static Test Methods: Quantifying the Shear Strength at the Interface " a collaborative work with Giulia Gastaldo from SURFICE
June/23
Luca's participation on the #SURFICEcomic series initiative is released
June/23
In the context of the surfice project, Carlo, Luca and Irene collaborated with @TUGraz and @FT Technologies to publish this paper in ACS Applied Materials Interfaces Journal
March/23
New paper out fruit of the collaboration with some institutes in China
16-17/March/23
Catalina participated in the EU Open day showing “What’s between a solid and a liquid” together with Navid from KULeuven and Viviana from University of Piamonte Orientale
24/Feb/23
Carlo and Irene collaborated with the Department of Biotechnology and bioscience of UNIMIB and with Aveiro Institute of Materials in Portugal in a review about chitosan based materiasl.
16-17/March/23
SEFI Lab was represented in the Science is wonderful fair by Catalina Ospina, together with Navid Mostofi Sarkari from SURFICE and Viviana Ospina with the proposal: "Is That a Solid or A Liquid?" focused on explaining viscoelasticity for school students.
Feb/23
Carlo Antonini collaborated with University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in a recent paper
21/March/23
Congratulations to Rajat for succesfully completing and defending his PhD.
Jan/2023
The first paper of 2023 is out!
Congratulations Rajat and thanks for your careful work during your Ph.D. since the first steps of the group
2022
Being scientists with disabilities: Carlo Antonini talks about his research path in the journal of the American Chemical Society
17/11/22
Carlo Antonini, as representative of the GEDI (Gender, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) working group of the MCAAssociation, has participated in the hybrid event "Gender Gap and Barriers to researchers' career of women in steam" organized by Gianna Avellis at University of Bari on Thu 17th November 2022, giving a short talk titled:
"Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion WG and Marie Curie Alumni Association"
This paper inspired the illustration made by Héloïse Chochois
Paper in collaboration with Nice Lab
Paper in collaboration with ETH Zurich
24/11/22
Alessandro Migliavacca just join the team as an executive Ph.D, so we use the occasion and a sunny day to update our group picture
31/10/22
During this event, Rajat was finalist in the presentation competition, well done!
Rajat's contribution to the additive manufacturing field.
15/11/22
Congratulations to Michele!
14/11/22
@TU Graz
Congratulations to Margherita!
14/11/22
@Rold
Her M.Sc. thesis and obtained the Cum Laude award.
14/11/22
Mar 2022- Oct 2022
@Instituto Ronzoni
Congratulations Chiara!
08/09/22
With the return of CorriBicocca, this time SEFILAB extended its presence with family and friends.
This book came out at the beginning of 2022.
Did you already take a look at this literature review?
26/09/22
12/10/22
A new Material Scientist is graduated
11/10/22
20/09/22
01/09/22: Recently, our group publisehd two journal papers:
08/09/22
Irene Tagliaro presented his work "Towards sustainable chitosan-based fluorine-free superhydrophobic coatings" at Junior Scientist meeting organized by the European Polysaccharine Network of Excellence -EPNOE-
01/07/22
Raziyeh presented her research on the Dropen too in DIPSI workshop in Bergamo
14/06/22
07/06/22
Irene and Catalina presented their research work in ISPAC 2022: 33rd international symposium on polymer analysis and characterization in University of Milan-Bicocca.
18-20/05/22
Luca, Catalina, Carlo and (remotely) Irene participated finally to the first SURFICE training at ISAE Supaero, Toulouse, France
04.04.2022: SEFI Lab welcomes Wei Yu from Xi'an Jiaotong University as a visiting PhD student in the group.
18.05.2022: Rajat attended a 5-day training course on 3D modelling for additive manufacturing by MAPIS 4.0 laboratory at Kilometro Rosso, Bergamo.
28.03.2022: Prof. Carlo Antonini is awarded as young talents among 52 young researchers from Bicocca by Accademia dei Lincei.
26.01.2022: Congratulations to Stefano Seccia as his entrepreneurial idea BIOAEROVAX is selecetd by B4I-Bocconi For Innovation.
08.03.2022: Congratulations to Beatrice pellegrini for her B.Sc. defense: "Chitosani derivatizzati per elettroforesi capillare".
07.03.2022: Congratulations to Lorenzo Mongodi for his M.Sc. defense: "Polysaccharide derivatives and their use for capillary electrophoresis".
14.02.2022: Congratulations to Leonardo Citterio for his B.Sc. defense: "Film a base di polisaccaridi: analisi dello stato dell’arte e sintesi di film di chitosano" at Istituto Ronzoni.
14.02.2022: Congratulations to Jacopo Paris for his thesis: "Effetto del contenuto di nichel e della velocità di raffreddamento sulla microstruttura grafitica in ghise austemperate" at CNR.
14.02.2022: Congratulations to Oxana Prodaniuc for her thesis: "Influenza dei fenomeni di corrosione su comportamento meccanico a caldo di superleghe di nichel" at CNR.
14.01.2022: SEFI lab welcomes Pablo Ibáñez Ibáñez as a Post-doc in the group.
2021
14.10.2021: Welcome to Anny Catalina Ospina, new PhD in the group working under SURFICE project.
12.10.2021: Today the family of Roberto Frigerio has received his post-mortem BSc degree in Materials Science, which he was just about to complete before his sudden death. A symbolic moment, that has united the family with Bicocca community.
12.10.2021: Congratulations to Roberto Ambrosio for his bachelor thesis: "Automatic analysis of dynamic contact angles;: development of an open-source software".
15.09.2021: Very happy to take part to AIMAT, the conference of the Italian community of Material Science and Engineering. First time, and already looking for ward to the next event.
12.07.2021: Congratulations to Stefano Seccia for delivering his master thesis titled "A chitosan-based superhydrophobic coating".
01.07.2021: Welcome to Luca Stendardo, new PhD in the group, working on "Understanding supercooling effect on wetting and ice adhesion" under SURFICE project.
22.06.2021: Congratulations Raziyeh Akbari for newly published article "Contact angle measurements: From existing methods to an open-source tool".
17.3.2021: The paper "Supramolecular Structuring of Hyaluronan-Lactose-Modified Chitosan Matrix: Towards High-Performance Biopolymers with Excellent Biodegradation" has been accpeted and published on Biomolecules. We wish this is the first of a long series of collaborative works with Dr. Sabrina Bertini and her group at Istituto Ronzoni!
16.3.2021: Our paper was selected for the cover page of vol. 53 on Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science.
9.3.2021: Congratulations to Emanuele Bestetti for his B.Sc. defense: "Effetto elastocalorico in leghe NiMnGaCu" at CNR Lecco and to Enrico Malgrati for his thesis: "Superfici antighiaccio ottenute mediante ossidazione anodica per componenti delle linee elettriche aeree" in collaboration with RSE SpA (Ricerca per il Servizio Elettrico).
8.3.2021: Congratulations to Alessia for her M.Sc. defense: "Synthesis and Characterization of Modified Polysaccharides for Capillary Electrophoresis", in collaboration with Istituto Ronzoni (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and University of Verona. The first M.Sc. graduating with a thesis in the SEFI Lab group!
2020
17.11.2020: Congratulations to Alessio Cerpelloni and Alessio Pezzoli for their B.Sc. defenses: "Elastomeri con proprietà antighiaccio per applicazione su componenti del sistema elettrico" and "Micropattering di superfici: una possibile strategia per contrastare la formazione di ghiaccio".
28.10.2020: Congratulations to Luca Raddrizzani for his B.Sc. defense: "Studio di sintesi, proprietà e possibili applicazioni di materiali a base di nanocellulosa".
16.10.2020: Our perspective on compound drop impact has been published as invited review on Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science. Great collaboration with MJ Thoraval @ XJTU, China. Read it here.
14.10.2020: Congratulations to Maria Giulia Bravi for B.Sc. defense: "Effetto Magnetocalorico gigante nelle leghe ferromagnetiche a memoria di forma", in collaboration with CNR Lecco.
29.09.2020: Despite travel restriction, Carlo Antonini is honored to participate as invited speaker to the "Wetting 2020" conference, in Bonn and online.
10.07.2020: Congratulations to Davide Bonomi and Marica Stanelli for their B.Sc. defenses: "Elasticità e bagnabilità di film di PDMS" and "Nanotubi di carbonio per materiali antighiaccio innovativi".
29.06.2020: We made it: SEFI Lab is leading the consortium SURFICE, a MSCA-ITN project financed by EU. Details here: https://www.mater.unimib.it/en/news/surfice-research-anti-icing-technologies-funded-european-commission
07.04.2020: Congratulations to Riccardo Ladié and Riccardo Robbiani for their B.Sc. defenses: "Sintesi e carattterizzazione di chitosano modificato per la preparazione di film" and "Studio di stabilità di soluzioni a base di acido ialuronico in differenti formulazioni".
13.03.2020: The paper "Rebound of self-lubricating compound drops" has been published on Science Advances.
19.02.2020: Congratulations to Marco Roccanova for his B.Sc. defense on the topic "Automatic image analysis for contact angle measurement using Matlab".
01.02.2020: Welcome to Raziyeh Akbari, new Post-Doc in the group.
2019
01.12.2019: Welcome to Rajat Chaudhary, new PhD in the group, working on "Metal Additive Manufacturing using DLP".
January 2024
Chitosan water soluble derivatives as dynamic coating agents for application to capillary electrophoresis
November 2023
New glycosylation method adaptable to any polymer functionalized with phenol residues or tyrosine containing proteins
October 2023
New paper out about Chitosan film sensors